Positioned within contemporary struggles over public meaning, social affiliation and political legitimacy, digital religion is articulated through mediated practices in which claims about faith, community, authority and truth become resources for negotiating belonging, morality, identity and power. Digital Religion V invites papers that examine these practices at the interfaces of discourse, society and politics, with a focus on digital religious discourse both as product and as practice: as a

The 18th International Cognitive Linguistics Conference (ICLC18) will take place at the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg from 20-24 August 2027 with pre-conference workshops from the 18th to the 20th and post-conference excursions on the 25th. The ICLC is the leading biennial meeting in Cognitive Linguistics (CL), bringing together researchers from around the world to present new research on the relationship between language and cognition, exchange ideas, and discuss emerging th

Modern societies are increasingly characterised by multilingual realities. Migration and transnational exchange have led to highly heterogeneous, “superdiverse” societies (Blommaert & Rampton 2011; Vertovec 2007), in which individuals routinely draw on multiple linguistic resources from their repertoires, including national, regional, minority, heritage and other acquired languages. In recent years, disciplines concerned with language learning—such as Second Language Acquisition (SLA), Third

From the perspective of pragmatics, coaching can be understood as a communication-based, co-constructed discourse genre in which coach and client jointly build meanings, goals, and courses of action turn by turn (see Fleischhacker & Graf 2023). Rather than merely transmitting information, coaching works through persuasion: it relies on speech acts such as advising, evaluating, goal-setting, while also managing uptake and creating an expert identity for the coach (see Weinzinger 2016, Dayter & Rü

The Department of Tenyidie, the Department of Linguistics and the Centre for Naga Tribal Language Studies, Nagaland University, are delighted to announce that the 59th International Conference on Sino-Tibetan Languages and Linguistics (ICSTLL-59) will be held from 14-16 December 2026 at Nagaland University, Kohima Campus, Meriema, Nagaland, India. We invite the submission of abstracts on any aspect of Sino-Tibetan languages and linguistics, including, but not limited to, the following areas:

The Japan Second Language Association (J-SLA) is pleased to announce the call for papers for the J-SLA Autumn Conference 2026. Date: 24 October, 2026 Venue: Chuo University (Tama Campus, Tokyo) Abstract submission deadline: 7th September 2026, 23:59 (Japan Standard Time) There are two formats for research presentations at J-SLA Autumn Conference 2026. (1) Student oral presentations (2) Poster presentations Please refer to the following website for abstract submission guidelines.

The translation of sacred texts has long been recognized as one of the most complex and intellectually demanding areas of translation studies. Unlike other forms of translation, translating sacred scriptures involves much more than finding linguistic equivalents. It requires preserving the meaning, style, and spiritual essence of the source text while making it accessible to readers from diverse linguistic, cultural, and religious backgrounds. Every translational decision has implications for

Frames and Framing: Constructing Meaning in Literature, Linguistics, and Translation Every act of communication, interpretation, and representation is an act of framing. In literary analysis, a “frame” might define genre, direct narrative perspective, or position a text within a historical moment. In linguistics, frames organize semantic understanding, govern pragmatic interaction, and underpin metaphor. In translation and interpreting, frames are negotiated, shifted, and sometimes shattered

1. Theme and Aim In today’s digital communication, emojis are no longer peripheral or merely decorative elements of written text. Rather, they have transitioned into sophisticated paralinguistic tools that encode, modify, and realize illocutionary forces at the intersection of cross-cultural conventions and digital platform affordances (Yus, 2025). Increasingly, emojis function as use-conditional expressives (Grosz, 2022) that directly alter the pragmatic weight of an utterance. They also bring

We are pleased to announce that the 31st Conference on Spanish in the United States and the 16th Conference on Spanish in Contact with Other Languages will be held on February 25–27, 2027, at the Casa de Palmas Hotel in McAllen, Texas. It is hosted by The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley. https://sites.google.com/view/sius2027/home Our conference theme, Vivir en Nepantla: Identity, Language, and the In-Between, draws on the Nahuatl concept of nepantla, often understood as a state of

We would like to cordially invite you to participate in a symposium on diversity in early multilingualism: https://t.uzh.ch/1Xl. We are now accepting applications to participate in the event. Participation is free of charge. When? 06-07 October 2026 Where? University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland Many children worldwide grow up learning and using two or more languages. The experiences of multilingual children vary greatly. Therefore, it is impossible to treat multilingual children as a

This is a panel that will be part of the 20th International Pragmatics Conference, It is organized by Jef Verschueren (Univ of Antwerp), Michael Meeuwis (Univ of Ghent), Jan-Ola Östman (Univ of Helsinki), Rui Zhang (Dalian Univ of Technology) Abstract: As a realm of publicly accessible discourse and as an arena for struggles over meaning, the public sphere (cf. Habermas 1989) has been undergoing drastic technologically driven changes during the past couple of decades. These changes include

The University of Parma's doctoral conference "Grammars of Sexuality: Forms of Saying, Narrating, Performing" (10-11 December 2026) explores sexuality as a culturally constructed "grammar", a system of rules that can be imposed, broken, or reinvented across discourse, literature, and performance. It's organised into three sections: Linguistics, focusing on how language, discourse, and embodied communication construct sexual meaning; Literature, examining how sexuality functions narratively acros

The panel seeks to advance our understanding of the nature of information that is ‘taken for granted’ in an utterance. Linguistic phenomena related to such information, most prominently presuppositions and conventional implicatures, received different analyses, e.g. as projective or not-at-issue content. Current debates center around the questions (i) whether a single analysis can capture all characteristics of this heterogenous set of phenomena; (ii) how they connect to information-structural d

The historical relation between African languages and general phonology has been a mutually beneficial one: African languages have contributed to the development of phonology in quite central ways, and developments in phonological theory have in turn improved our understanding of the many fascinating complexities of African phonological systems. This conference brings together 13 specialists of African linguistics and phonology to discuss the many contributions of African languages to the fie

African languages are still underrepresented in linguistic research; as a result there are almost no corpora. One way to quickly and efficiently build a corpus that allows for the investigation of a specific research question is to create one on the basis of storyboards. Storyboards are rudimentary picture stories that speakers can retell. The design of the storyboards can be used to specifically elicit certain linguistic constructions. In this way, natural language data can be obtained that

The Western Conference on Linguistics (WECOL) is an international conference on any aspect of theoretical or descriptive linguistics. Invited speakers this year are Aaron Broadwell - University of Florida Hannah Sande - University of California, Berkeley WECOL 2026 will be held VIRTUALLY on Zoom, November 14-15, based at California State University, Fresno. Presentations are published in the WECOL Proceedings online: https://wecol.weebly.com/ Submission Instructions: All submissions

11th Conference of the International Association of Literary Semantics: “Hybrid Semantics: Media, Modes, and Meaning” University of Warsaw, 17th – 19th June 2027 (social and cultural events possible on 16th & 20th June, to be confirmed) Proposal deadline: 15 January 2027 The 2027 edition of the IALS conference invites contributions that explore hybrid semantics – the ways meaning is produced, transformed, and negotiated when literary texts intersect with multiple media, languages, tec

DDHUM26 — 4th International Conference Data & Digital Humanities Data, Science and Digital Communication: Interdisciplinary Perspectives 26–27 November 2026 - University of Minho, Braga, Portugal The 4th edition of the International Conference Data & Digital Humanities (DDHUM26) is framed by the theme “Data, Science and Digital Communication: Interdisciplinary Perspectives”, exploring contemporary intersections between data practices, scientific knowledge production, and digital communicati

“Ibero-Romance Studies in the Contemporary World: Scientific Paradigm and Current Challenges” is a conference focusing on issues of Ibero-Romance linguistics, literature, culture, translation, and language teaching methodology. The conference brings together researchers from leading Russian and international academic institutions: Lomonosov Moscow State University, the Institute of Linguistics of the Russian Academy of Sciences, the Institute of Latin America of the Russian Academy of Science